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If you could get them to carefully dump it only on the roof guttering, the letter box, and the front gate, and to use a color close to Dulux A277 Picture Book green (http://m.dulux.com.au/colour/hue/Greens), that would be a rare example of a fountain pen user actually doing something useful. But I guess I'm setting my hopes way too high.

After my death and resurrection, I will receive a glorious immortal body, that will never die. That sounds like a form of evolution to me. As to the idea that we have shortened life spans, yes, there was a time in the first 1500 or so years after Adam when some people apparently lived far longer than most people do now, although this longevity may have been limited to only those very few who were most righteous, but since that period ended the average life span now is decades longer than it was just a century ago, and it continues to increase.

Violence towards fountain pens is perfectly acceptable.I actually think it should be mandatory.

I started my semi-annual hibernation in mid-October. I woke up the other day and noticed that Trump is now President. How did this happen? Why did this happen? I'd be interested in hearing people's views/explanations. I supposed that now the battle begins, Trump vs. the swamp. I wonder who will win. The swamp seems to have been sucking people into it for literally centuries, and self survival is the strongest instinct.

My ringtone is a message that I recorded myself. It goes like this: (My name) this is your phone ringing. Someone's trying to phone you. (Pause). It's still ringing. Perhaps you should answer it. Or you could just let it ring through to the voicemail, its up to you. I'm ready to do whatever you want. I've received a few odd looks when others hear it.

My understanding of the theory of evolution is that if an organism adheres to certain laws, in this case, the laws of survival of the fittest, then that organism is likely to progress and improve in relation to other forms of life. My understanding of the law of the gospel is that if I adhere to certain laws, in this case the laws of Heaven, then I am likely to progress and improve in relation to other forms of life. I see some similarities, although I suppose there are also some differences.

Delightfully and informatively so.

The sealing is more an opportunity than a guarantee.

If we could do the spraying in the general direction of Zil, zis sounds like a great idea. Perhaps I could commission you to commence immediate construction of this pencil sprayer? And maybe we could modify it so that raw material would be fountain pens instead of pencils?

Just wait a little longer Zil. Try harder to keep the commandments and be good and righteously exercise faith, and your turn will come to be transformed into the next form of evolution.

This program aired on national tv in Australia last Wednesday. I think its the best documentary prepared by a non-member that I've seen about the church. I'm putting a link to it here because I think it might be of interest to mostly for anonymousutahatheist, but perhaps also for a few others. The presenter/director of the program usually does comedy work and has had several shows of his own in the past, but in this program he takes a much more serious approach. From the perspective of an honest and objective outsider he attends and comments on General Conference, sings with Motab, lives with a bishop's family, accompanies the bishop on a home teaching visit, attends a class in MTC and a few other things. I think a brief log in is required to view the program but its well worth the effort. If for some reason the link below doesn't work, the title of the program is Shaun Micallef Stairway to Heaven, accessible through sbs.com.au/ondemand http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/847588931862

Thanks Sunday, I took a good look at the site and forwarded it on to my Gospel Doctrine teacher.

Do you use them on people who are fully in favour of the advantages of printers over pens? Would such a person dare to enter your office?

You're an engineer, you should be able to work out a way. For me, I'd do it in the same way that people spray bullets, but using a Nerf gun, calibrated to take pencils. https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=662&q=nerf+gun&oq=nerf+gun&gs_l=img.3..0l10.878.3068.0.6813.8.8.0.0.0.0.279.1121.2-5.5.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..3.5.1117.-7cj274oPCU

pahh! paint, ink, crayons, textas, pencils etc, etcetera - they're all the same

Have you done the spray test yet, whereby you inject the ink into a can and then surreptitiously spray it onto a wall at night? ps From what I know of polygamous arrangements, I'm surprised that you're even asking this question. As the man of the compound, shouldn't gator be making this decision? Perhaps he has given you enough authority to make it yourself?

Have you done the spray test yet, whereby you inject the ink into a can and then surreptitiously spray it onto a wall at night?

Do you mean to imply that there is some form of ink that does not come out of a printer? What good would such ink be, what on earth could it be used for?

Here is a link to an investigation carried out by the Australian equivalent of the American National Public Radio into how the whole peer review process can be massively manipulated. Its about a publishing company in India that publishes 700 peer reviewed titles, but apparently many of the academics who the publishing company claims reviews the articles have no idea that their names and reputations are being used in this way. For the record, I have no quarrel with the methodologies of science although I do note that politicians and governments can generally buy whatever scientific opinion they need to support their agendas. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/predatory-publishers-criticised-unethical-unprincipled-tactics/6656122 See also http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/bogus-society-offers-to-publish-papers-without-peer-review/6653748 If you wish to publish your paper immediately without peer review. We can do it for you.' Background Briefing exposes the predatory practices of an open access publisher that claims to be one of Sydney's leading scientific associations. A scholarly publisher that claims to follow 'world best academic publishing protocol' has agreed to publish an academic paper 'immediately without peer review' in exchange for a $704 fee. The Australian Society for Commerce Industry and Engineering (SCIE) agreed to the arrangement in an email exchange with Background Briefing during an investigation into predatory practices on the fringes of the academic publishing industry. Academic publishing is a multi-million-dollar industry, with big names like Elsevier often accused of charging libraries extortionate fees for access to journals.

The attached article comes from the current online version of New Scientist. I don't fully understand it and I neither endorse or oppose it, I simply add it here because it seems to be highly relevant to this discussion. It makes the claim that life may have appeared many different times on earth. It also claims that the basic building blocks and processes for creating life do not require any fantastic events or unusual inputs, and that the main ingredients can be readily found in even a basic chemistry lab. Interestingly, the article makes a few references to the importance of clay in the creation of life. multiple emergence of life.docx

You're exaggerating again Zil. Much as you like to think of the man of your compound as being big and bold I think this is a more accurate picture

I know this is not the point you are making but this is my initial response to this post: How rude and proud and pointless it is not to approach God. God has nothing better to do, and nothing He wants to do more, than help His children. A god that is more concerned about the stage - the universe - than the actors on the stage - us - seems like a very odd kind of god and one not worthy of my worship.

PC, I'm now concerned for you. I've heard some sad stories about what has happened to some people once they achieve their goal in life.

That's not a bad description of the relationship between the US and Persia up until 1979 and the fall of the Shah.

I'm all in favour of a guarenteed income - for me. Two incomes would be even better. Not so sure if I'm in favour of this for the other guy.